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Guidelines for treating rape victims omit emergency contraception
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| Last Edited | RP Dec 31, 2004 12:24pm |
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| News Date | Friday, December 31, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The U.S. Department of Justice has issued its first-ever medical guidelines for treating sexual assault victims - without any mention of emergency contraception, the standard precaution against pregnancy after rape.
Gail Burns-Smith, one of several dozen experts who vetted the protocol during its three-year development by Justice's Office on Violence Against Women, said emergency contraception was included in an early draft, and she does not know of anyone who opposed it.
"But in the climate in which we are currently operating, politically it's a hot potato,'' said Burns-Smith, retired director of Connecticut Sexual Assault Crisis Services. |
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